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    General Reading List

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    Our staff has compiled the following list of books to aid you in healing, in understanding, and to help you or someone you love cope with the suicide loss of a loved one.

    For books for Parents & Professional, Teens or Children, please see the above links for book recommendations under those categories.

     

    On Suicide & Grief

     

    Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, by Kay Redfield Jamison

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    No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving The Suicide Of a Loved One, by Carla Fine

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    Dying To Be Free: A Healing Guide for Families After A Suicide, by Beverly Cobaine

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    Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicide, by Christopher Lukas

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    My Son…My Son…: A Guide to Healing After Death, Loss, or Suicide, by Iris Bolton

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    When A Man Faces Grief/A Man You Know Is Grieving, by James E. Miller

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    A Grief Like No Other: Surviving the Violent Loss of Someone You Love, by Kathleen O’Hara

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    A New Normal: Learning to Live with Grief and Loss, by Darlene Cross MS MFT

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    The Construction of Meaning Following Parental Suicide: Grief of children following parental suicide, by Dorothy Ratnarajah

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    The Forgotten Mourners: Sibling Survivors of Suicide, by John’s Sister

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    When the Bough Breaks: Forever After the Death of a Son or Daughter, by Judith R. Bernstein, Ph.D.

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    The Worst Loss: How Families Heal from the Death of a Child, by Barbara D. Rosof

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    Life After the Death of My Son: What I’m Learning, by Dennis L. Apple

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    A Broken Heart Still Beats: after Your Child Dies, by Anne McCracken

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    The Mourning Book: The Most Comprehensive Resource Offering Practical and Compassionate Advice on Coping With All Aspects of Death & Dying, by Helen Fitzgerald

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    A Guide For The Bereaved Survivor, by Robert Baugher, Ph. D.

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    After Suicide: A Ray of Hope for Those Left Behind, by E. Betsy Ross

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    After The Darkest Hour, The Sun Will Shine Again: A parent’s guide to coping with the loss of a child, by Elizabeth Mehren

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    After The Death Of A Child, by Ann K. Finkbeiner

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    Aftershock: Help, Hope and Healing in the Wake of Suicide, by Candy Neely Arrington

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    An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness, by Kay Redfield Jamison

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    Have you found another book helpful? Let us know and we will add it to our list.
    Please send an email to Michele@SOSLsd.org

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